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Oil prices gained more than 1% after President Donald Trump said he would not be much more patient with Iran and as concerns persisted over ship attacks and seizures despite Tehran saying about 30 vessels had passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Brent crude oil futures rose $1.32, or 1.25%, to $107.04 a barrel by 0425 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate futures were up $1.33, or 1.31%, to $102.50.
For the week, Brent has climbed nearly 6%, while WTI has jumped more than 7%, on uncertainty over the shaky ceasefire in the Iran conflict.
“I am not going to be much more patient,” Trump said in an interview aired on Thursday night on Fox News. “They should make a deal”.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday morning that China was being very pragmatic about involvement with Iran, and it was important to China to have the Strait of Hormuz open, in an interview with Bloomberg.
Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping are set to meet on Friday to wrap up a two-day state visit that has featured pomp and business deals.
Read: Iran war and oil dominate BRICS meet in India
“With the Beijing summit not delivering any breakthrough on Iran, market focus is back on the deadlock and a blockaded Strait, with a tail risk of renewed military escalation,” said Vandana Hari, founder of oil market analysis provider Vanda Insights.
Among the deals the market was looking out for from the summit, Trump said China wants to buy oil from the United States.
In incidents around the Strait of Hormuz, a ship was reported seized by Iranian personnel off the United Arab Emirates and headed for Iranian waters on Thursday, and an Indian cargo vessel carrying livestock from Africa to the UAE was sunk on Wednesday in waters off the coast of Oman.
The White House said Trump and Xi had agreed on the need to keep the shipping lane open.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said 30 vessels had crossed the Strait of Hormuz since Wednesday evening, still far short of 140 that were typical daily before the war, but a substantial increase if confirmed.
Read more: China says ‘no point in continuing’ Iran war as Xi hosts Trump
Yang An, analyst at Haitong Futures, said the main driver of oil prices was still tight supply.
“Oil prices swung several times yesterday but still closed near the day’s high,” he said.
“Ships passing through the strait eased some market concerns, but not enough to change the strong trend driven by tight supply”.
NEW DELHI: Union govt has banned the export of sugar till Sept 30 this year with immediate effect, a move aimed at enhancing domestic availability and preventing any price rise. Earlier, the exports were under a restricted category, under which a licence was required for the outbound shipments. “The export policy of sugar (raw sugar, white sugar and refined sugar)… is amended from ‘restricted’ to ‘prohibited’ with immediate effect till Sept 30, 2026, or until further orders, whichever is earlier,” the directorate general of foreign trade (DGFT) stated in a recent notification.This order, however, does not apply to sugar being exported to the European Union and the US under the CXL and Tariff Rate Quota (TRQ) arrangement, respectively. The arrangements allow exporters to ship specified quantities of sugar to these destinations at significantly reduced or zero customs duties.The DGFT order is also not applicable to the shipments under the advance authorisation scheme, govt-to-govt exports and consignments already in the physical export pipeline.For the 2025-26 sugar marketing year (Oct to Sept), govt initially allowed 15 lakh tonne for exports, and then opened an additional 5 lakh-tonne pool, of which only 87,587 tonne were approved.The food ministry and sugar mills were expecting 7.5-8 lakh tonne of shipments in 2025-26 marketing year.India’s sugar production rose 7.3% to 275 lakh tonne till April in the 2025-26 marketing season, driven by higher output in Maharashtra and Karnataka, according to industry body ISMA. It has projected total production for the 2025-26 marketing season at 293 lakh tonne after ethanol diversion, up from 261 lakh tonne recorded in 2024-25.Banning exports of a commodity helps prevent a rise in prices amid inflation concerns and uncertainty caused by the West Asia conflict.
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